Create CloudWatch Alarms for Amazon Pinpoint Metrics

In CloudWatch, you can create alarms that send notifications when specific metrics
exceed a
particular value. For example, you could set an alarm that sends you an email when
the
ImportedEndpointFailure metric exceeds a certain value. In this
example, if the number of endpoint import failures exceeds the threshold that you
specified,
you receive an email alerting you of the issue. This section contains procedures for
setting
up an alarm for Amazon Pinpoint metrics in the CloudWatch console.

Important

Before you can complete the procedures in this section, you first have to create an
Amazon SNS topic and subscribe an endpoint to it. For more information, see Create a Topic and Subscribe to a Topic in the
Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

To create an alarm for Amazon Pinpoint metrics in the CloudWatch console

In the Pinpoint Metrics section, choose the metric you want
to create an alarm for. Choose Next.

In the Alarm Threshold section, do the following:

Type a Name and a Description
for the alarm.

Specify the value that causes CloudWatch to raise an alarm, as shown in the
following image.

In the Actions section, do the following:

For Whenever this alarm, choose State is
ALARM. This setting tells CloudWatch to send a notification when
the state of the alarm is ALARM (as opposed to OK
or INSUFFICIENT).

For Send notification to, choose the Amazon SNS topic that
should be notified when the alarm is triggered, as shown in the following
image.

Choose Create Alarm.

Note

There are additional settings that you can configure when you create a CloudWatch
alarm. For additional information about configuring CloudWatch alarms, see Create or Edit a CloudWatch Alarm in
the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.